Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review

Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review: "Russian secret services blur the maps of the oil resources

The British Petroleum employee Bruce Morrow, who worked for three years on the shores of Lake Samotlor in Russian Siberia on a joint venture between BP and Russian investors claims that the maps of the oil rich areas of Russia are blurred by the secret services, The New York Times reported. “It was like a game,� Morrow said of trying to make sense of the officially doctored maps, holdovers from the Cold War era provided by secretive men who worked in a special department of his company. From the maps the Russians gave Morrow, he could never really know where he was, a misery for him as an oil engineer working. The latitude and longitude had been blotted out from his maps and the grid diverged from true north. The doctored maps belong to a deep-rooted Russian tradition of deceiving outsiders. During the Cold War it was called 'maskirovka', Soviet military parlance for deception, disinformation and deceit. "